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Innovation Fund to Reduce Demand for Illicit Substances (RDIS) Programme Phase 2 Stage 2 Committee Meeting Minutes

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Published: 08 April 2024

Version: 1.0 February 2024

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Date and Location

Wednesday 07 February 2024 via Zoom Virtual Meeting

In attendance:

Committee

Professor Sue Ziebland (Chair)
Mrs Anne Benson
Professor Chris Bonell
Professor Simon Coulton
Professor Eileen Kaner
Professor Susanne MacGregor
Miss Stella O'Brien
Dr Mabel Okoeki
Professor Tessa Parkes
Dr Jeremy Segrott
Dr Jenny Scott
Dr Tara Shivaji
Professor Obioha Chukwunyere Ukoumunne
Professor Anne Whittaker

RDIS Secretariat

Mr Ben Morgan (NIHR Deputy Director of Research Programmes)
Dr Raffaella Roncone (NIHR Assistant Director and Head of Innovation and Enterprises)
Dr Ian Newington (NIHR Assistant Director, Innovations)
Dr Stuart Haylock (NIHR Senior Research Manager)
Ms Amy Muggeridge (NIHR Senior Research Manager)
Ms Cordelia Davey Wright (NIHR Operations Manager)
Ms Elena Sundle (NIHR Research Officer)
Ms Holly Holman (NIHR Research Officer)
Miss Sarah Betts (NIHR Programme Manager - PPIE and Engagement)

Observers

Miss Isabelle Hammond-Caines
Ms Philippa Hook

Stage 2 applications considered

NIHR206755: A REAList evaluation of a school-based, multi-component Drug Education Programme (REAL-DEP)
Outcome: Recommended for funding

NIHR206760: The Illicit Project UK: Adaption and implementation of an evidence based schools prevention programme for older adolescents.
Outcome: Recommended for funding

NIHR206763: Achieving a generational shift in the demand for recreational drug use in Swindon's young persons population.
Outcome: Reject

NIHR206766: Stressed Out Brain: An evaluation of an early intervention, trauma-informed approach to reducing young people’s cannabis use.
Outcome: Reject

NIHR206768: Investigating the role of Theatre-in-Education in preventing illicit substance use.
Outcome: Recommended for funding

NIHR206769: Reducing the use of cocaine and its subsequent impact on domestic abuse.
Outcome: Reject

NIHR206772: Reducing demand for illicit substances in young people through co-production, skills training and early intervention.
Outcome: Recommended for funding

NIHR206773: Can a Social Marketing Campaign combined with personal and social upskilling training shift attitudes towards drugs? A pilot study in BCP and Dorset Council areas.
Outcome: Reject